Case Study: Everyday Life Administrative Building

When client arrived to the office, client greeted therapist. When therapist checked in on symptoms and behaviors clients reported feeling happy 7X/W this past week as he reported that he has two weeks off for the winter break. Client reports feeling happy and excited that he is on vacation from school, having a new therapist, received many presents for Christmas and he is excited to open it soon, and spending more quality time with his mother. Client reported that he feels bored as he has lots of time during the week because he has no homework or school and he feel lazy and has no enough activities to fill the time. Client reported that he wants to play with his friends, but most of them are either busy with Christmas shopping or travelling.

In an inpatient setting, patients admit with a mental health crisis and are especially sensitive to interactions with others. Often the first levels of engagement are challenging due to medications that are first given to stabilize each patient. During the engagement with Mark, it was important to encourage the sense of wellbeing towards recovery and placing a focus on his strengths. Engaging a client with their challenges and goals are suggested to be of focus instead of an individual’s mental health status or symptoms (Novotná, Urbanoski, & Rush, 2011).

“Your optimism is killing me,” a patient replied after my attempt to encourage her to try to stand up, so she could attend a physical therapy session. Though I took her comment with a grain of salt, it was the cornerstone for the reputation I would build during my career as a Physical Therapist Assistant. Most clinicians shy away from challenging personalities; not me, I strive to be different. It’s been three years since that patient discharged home against medical advice. which ignited fuel to the fire of continuing to pursue my undergraduate degree.

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What goes wrong, thus bringing a client into therapy? Rogers considers the problem to be lack of

Goal is to work with client on areas that he or she would like to improve using problem-solving skills. This goal can be achieve by identifying the client goal and personal skills and knowledge. Involving client in decision making helps to move towards independencies and reduce anxiety. Also use empathetic communication, encourage client and family to verbalize fears, express emotions and set goals. Acknowledging and empathizing creates supportive environment that enhance coping. Another intervention is to assess client strength and ability to cope and provide opportunities for expression and recognition. This will help client easily cope with situation and affect self esteem (Weg,

Encourage the client to find a support group. Rationale: talking to others going through the same situation helps give insight and may help comfort client more.

He came to his appointment approximately 25 minutes late. Therefore, we had less than 30 minutes for this intake. He presented with a sense of anxiety related to his concerns for the future. He discussed his interest in perusing a career as a physical therapist. However, for now he has decided to wait until next year to apply for a graduate school. He presented a sense of uncertainty, which increase his anxiety, towards his plans for post-graduation from UWB. He discussed a few options he has with regards to his living situation, which include staying with his parents or moving out with his girlfriend. He also expressed financial concerns. He presented an uncertainty about whether he would be able to meet his financial needs.

One of my patients, Jamelle Huston, had a session with me this past Monday. As the session started, I noticed her heightened anxiety response and overwhelming feeling of frustration and sadness. I actually had to do a combination of grounding and relaxation technique with her since her cognition and behavior really concerned me. She expressed ongoing frustration from being treated unfairly and unprofessionally by staff at New Phases, specifically by the director and her counselor. There have been several more incidents that have occurred;

Recreational therapy has been a constant form of happiness throughout the past four years of my life. As a freshman in college, I came to Temple University undecided on what I wanted to major in for the next four years. Only knowing that I wanted to study something pertaining to health and well-being, I checked out my options and instantly fell in love with the idea of studying recreation therapy. By doing so, I would be able to directly work with individuals, promoting health through recreation and leisure involvement.

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pursuing a desired course of action. It could be that the counsellor is unable to respond to the client

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Comfort and slice are vital because it allows the client during that time to gather their thoughts and ideas. I need to work on being more effective in the comfort and slice because that will strengthen my counseling skills in letting the client think and evaluate themselves before they communicate again. The second weakness was summarizing during and at the end of the session. I did not do those things and I thought that was not the right way to ending the session, summarizing at the end of the session gives to counselor and client the information into what was being said and discussed. I need to do that in the next session because that will assist me in helping the client understand in a sense to what was all discussed during the session. That will support the client into what the plan is forward. The third weakness was the empathy aspect, I felt and observed that there were some instances in the session to where the client was expressing something that they were going through and I didn’t respond. One example from the session, the client was expression how he feels bad about himself and wants to lose weight, in that instance I should have used empathy and told him that what he’s going through sounds tough. Empathy is important during a session because it is experiencing understanding another person's condition from their

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